The Last Trip

we will all take this trip one day -

Estasi di Santa Teresa

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Facial Expressions workshop with Orly Avineri

This weekend I got to attend a 3-day workshop given by Orly Avineri. The title, Facial Expressions intrigued me because I had taken one from her a few years ago where we made a...

Pool side

Mark Webster - Nixie 12-01 - Abstract Geometric Figurative Ink Drawing

Mark Webster - Nixie 12-01 - Abstract Geometric Figurative Ink Drawing. 9x12" Ink on Bristol Board.

Don't Throw Away Those Pastel Bits!

'Island Time' 8x10 pastel ©Karen Margulis available $150 It is an inevitable result of painting. Pastels wear down. They break. We are left with bits and pieces of once...

Mickey Mouse Development

Two images from different eras in the development of Mickey Mouse. The first one is from Steamboat Willie, 1928. A gorgeous animation drawing by Ub Iwerks, who animated the...

Drawings by Tchoban, Holl, and Calatrava Among Stunning Entries for the...

New Entry 5 / Sergei Tchoban. Image Courtesy of The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design Russian-German architect Sergei Tchoban of Tchoban Voss Architekten has...

Opening for my Minnesota Workshop

I just had a cancellation for my workshop taking place Oct 12th-14th here in Minnesota, so I know have an open spot! Visit the workshop page here for all the details and to...

Laying female nude figure from life

Life drawing with mostly vine charcoal and some charcoal powder and acetone wash for background textures. 6x7 charcoal on Strathmore paper

Just Let Yourself Go!

'Lavender Gone Wild' 11x14 pastel ©Karen Margulis available $195 I was struggling. I had this vision of what my painting should look like and it just wasn't working. I had...

Central Florida Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Song Circle

Musicians gather monthly on the third Wednesday of each month at 6:00 P.M. til 8:30 P.M. in the community room of the Winter Park Public Library (460 E. New England Ave. Winter...

How I Rescued a Failure - original figurative pencil and oil pastel drawing

I bought the neatest daVinci set of pan watercolors and splurged on a new watercolor brush and some new watercolor instruction books - and have produced nothing but failures...